Somewhere en route towards the PhD I planned to get in utterly
impractical and ancient things, I decided I didn't want to spend my
20s in a library. So I did the opposite. Went from Prague to Hong
Kong by land...traveled to over 30 countries...worked as a
journalist...spent 7 years building a non-profit doing sustainable
development in sub-Saharan Africa and then moved to the Hudson
River Valley to start building a more sustainable life for myself.

Books--I love the classics in perpetuity, and currently think all
things written by John Irving and Margaret Atwood are brilliant. I
will always love Romantic novels (capital "R"--not the kind you buy
in Duane Reade) and old school sci-fi.

Movies--The Princess Bride=best movie ever. Otherwise, I'm pretty
much all about alternating between black & white films and
action movies. A little Cary Grant, throw in some Sylvester
Stalone, either Hepburn and some Harrison Ford and that's pretty
much all I'll ever need.

TV--I'm a serial monogamist when it comes to television. I'm a one
show kind of girl.

Music--Let's just say that at the moment, these are my favorite
Pandora stations: Regina Spektor, Simon and Garfunkel, Cake, Beck,
Ella Fitzgerald, Angus and Julia Stone, Joni Mitchell and the
Kinks.